Successfully engineered the era’s most important movement for social, cultural and political change → in the 1960s
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT A political rebellion and became synonymous with student political and social movements synonymous with the
general culture of decent in the 1960s
FEBRUARY 1960 – the Greensboro sit-in in Civil rights movement encouraged students to challenge their own thinking and their own social upbringing
north Carolina that resulted in the The powerful protest movement Rejected the materialism of American society and many embraced the
formation of the SNCC socialist ideals that offered a more just society →united in opposition to the Vietnam war
Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS) - 1959 The Berkley Free Speech Movement - 1964 Anti-war (Vietnam war) - 1968
1. Disbarment to reduce the cold war • American society was divided
tensions between the super powers between those who supported the
war and those who were against the
2. Called for reforms with in the
war
democratic party
• As the war escalated, more and more
3. Better representations of their young Americans were killed or
political interest and support CRM wounded, and students began to
• Launched to protest university
question America’s involvement in
limits on political expression on
the war
campus
• Young college students faced the
• In response, radical students
AIMS AIMS AIMS possibility of war and death as their
occupied a parking lot on the
deferment was refused and they
Berkeley campus, and declared
4. Called for university reforms to were drafted to fight in the war
it a “liberated zone”
bring greater diversity • Students fought against the Vietnam
(more diverse teaching + used the War
institutions to create social change) • They used non-violent tactics in
getting their message across: Held
teach-ins to educate people on the
war
• Staged demonstrations where young
men burnt their draft cards
In the autumn of 1964, students at the University
- the SDS became more radical and its members
of California in Berkeley, many of them veterans The worst episode took place at Kent State
protested rigorously against the war, the
of the Freedom Summer campaign, launched the University in Ohio in 1970
American government and all that it stood
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
SDS organised a March on Washington DC in When the students protested in the streets From the late 1940s relations between the Soviet
April 1965, and from about that period, grew against this action, the National Guard Union and the USA became more and more
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT A political rebellion and became synonymous with student political and social movements synonymous with the
general culture of decent in the 1960s
FEBRUARY 1960 – the Greensboro sit-in in Civil rights movement encouraged students to challenge their own thinking and their own social upbringing
north Carolina that resulted in the The powerful protest movement Rejected the materialism of American society and many embraced the
formation of the SNCC socialist ideals that offered a more just society →united in opposition to the Vietnam war
Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS) - 1959 The Berkley Free Speech Movement - 1964 Anti-war (Vietnam war) - 1968
1. Disbarment to reduce the cold war • American society was divided
tensions between the super powers between those who supported the
war and those who were against the
2. Called for reforms with in the
war
democratic party
• As the war escalated, more and more
3. Better representations of their young Americans were killed or
political interest and support CRM wounded, and students began to
• Launched to protest university
question America’s involvement in
limits on political expression on
the war
campus
• Young college students faced the
• In response, radical students
AIMS AIMS AIMS possibility of war and death as their
occupied a parking lot on the
deferment was refused and they
Berkeley campus, and declared
4. Called for university reforms to were drafted to fight in the war
it a “liberated zone”
bring greater diversity • Students fought against the Vietnam
(more diverse teaching + used the War
institutions to create social change) • They used non-violent tactics in
getting their message across: Held
teach-ins to educate people on the
war
• Staged demonstrations where young
men burnt their draft cards
In the autumn of 1964, students at the University
- the SDS became more radical and its members
of California in Berkeley, many of them veterans The worst episode took place at Kent State
protested rigorously against the war, the
of the Freedom Summer campaign, launched the University in Ohio in 1970
American government and all that it stood
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
SDS organised a March on Washington DC in When the students protested in the streets From the late 1940s relations between the Soviet
April 1965, and from about that period, grew against this action, the National Guard Union and the USA became more and more
